All the fans and staff of FC Barcelona can now breathe a sigh of relief, because Lionel Messi has played his final game of the season and will now have some time to rest and recuperate before returning to the Nou Camp for pre-season training. He marked his last game of the season with a hat-trick as Argentina beat Guatemala 4-0 in an international friendly.

The little flea was not 100 percent by any stretch of the imagination and only played for just over an hour, but he did not make his injury problems any worse and, as we know, a partly fit Messi can still give opposing team’s defenders nightmares. See video highlights below. .....Read more here.......

Lionel Messi is going to run out of records to break soon. The Barcelona and Argentina number 10 became the first player to win the coveted FIFA Ballon D’Or awarded to the best player in the world four times in a row. The award was changed four years ago so, officially it is three in a row, but Messi won the one before as well. .....Read more here.......